Tripod Sentinels

16/08/2013

I had a bout a 24 hour delay on the Pirate Ship you can read about it here:
http://www.lostmachine.com/blog/archives/449

Please keep sharing the link to the Baby Tripods, we're not there yet, but we're close.
http://www.lostmachine.com/

Between the Pirate Ship’s engine and its hydraulic pump is a device called a “spider coupler” There is a rubber element (that looks like a 6 legged spider) that connects the two shafts of the motor and pump. The spider takes out vibration and miss alignment between the pump and the engine. When w...

09/08/2013

Help the Clock Ship Tere get to the Playa. Hi everyone so a lot of you know we had some mechanical problems in 2011, we now have those fixed and are working hard to spruce up the ship before we get to the desert. But we may not get there, we have a working ship, we don't have the funds to transport the working ship. So we're doing a special addition sale of Baby Tripods. They are only $20 each. The money will be used to pay for a truck rental, fuel, and propane. You can get them here:
http://www.lostmachine.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ2_qdobfQ8

Here is a video of a full speed reverse test drive (we forgot to film full speed forward)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostmachine/9475455134/

Thank you all so much,
Captain Andy

P.S. I would be very grateful if you shared this post on your various pages

Please buy a Baby Tripod to help get the Clock Ship Tere to Burning Man. http://www.LostMachine.com

29/03/2012

Hi everyone. The Voting ends on Saturday and the Pirate Ship Art Car is barely behind the corporate sponsored Stanford team (errrr....)

We need some help. We need you to vote, but we really need to you vote and share the link. Friends, family co-workers, anyone; getting someone else to vote is like voting twice. We're going to need that to win. It only takes a few seconds and there could be $10K that will go to more Portland base Burner art.

Thanks in advance,

http://www.bocabearings.com/innovation-contest/ContestantDetails.aspx?ProjectID=28

The Clock Ship Tere is a kinetic art vehicle. We like to call it "engineered art". The idea was to expose the workings of a large piece of machinery. From a distance she looks like a land pirate ship, but as you get closer you begin to see the gears that make the ship come alive. She was designed by...

29/11/2011

Baby Tripods are now available on the website. All sales support Metal Art.

http://www.lostmachine.com/store/index.html

LED Light.

29/11/2011

29/06/2011

If you own a Tripod you were supporting this project. You got us this far. The Tripods built the ship, but she isn't finished yet. If you have a few bucks, it would go a long way to finishing this ship. Thank you.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/127652446/finish-the-cs-tere?ref=live

Help Build a Steam Punkish Art Vehicle.

18/05/2011

http://www.lostmachine.com/blog/archives/335

We are off to Maker Faire in two days. We’ll have a small booth where we hope to make enough money to buy the rest of the materials to add the Fire effects to the ship along with a working engine.

09/05/2011

A couple weeks ago I said if we sold 6 Tripods we could buy Material to make the new wheels. Well, you guys are Awesome and we got the material. We have been working hard on the wheels, see what we have done.
http://www.lostmachine.com/blog/archives/328

I’ve been spending a lot of time looking for a job, if anyone needs a Structural Engineer, Project Manager, Welder, or Machinist in the Portland Oregon Area please let me know.

18/04/2011

I just added 28 new Tripods to the Website. If we sell 6 this week we can order the material to build the rear wheels for the ship. Thanks for your support : )

http://www.lostmachine.com/store/index.html

LED Light.

02/03/2011

The History of the Tripods

http://www.lostmachine.com/projects/tripod/index.html

LED Light.

09/11/2010

http://www.lostmachine.com/blog/archives/279

Our request for an Electrical Engineer has been answered. We had a lot of offers to help from some very talented people, in the end we went with someone who has a long history of developing open source hardware and is a founding member of one of the best know Hacker Spaces in the US. We are happy t

04/11/2010

A very Important Request.
http://www.lostmachine.com/blog/archives/264

I have good news and bad news. The good news is new Tripods are being built, 238 new Tripods are in the shop right now in various stages of completion.

31/10/2010

A friend was playing a game where his helicopter crashed on the wrong side of the island. Without another vehicle he was going to spend the next 15 minutes holding the "W" key to run back to where the bad guys were. Luckily his Tripod wanted to play too.

14/07/2010

http://kck.st/9VGSFR

Andy Tibbetts is raising funds for C.S. Tere Pirate Ship on Kickstarter!

Steampunk-ish Pirate Ship for Burning Man 2010

16/06/2010

The Last two Tripods are on the web site. This is it, after these sale no more until after Burning Man.

http://www.lostmachine.com/tripod.html

Incorporating an advanced electronics package, Jopel Designs has partnered up with LostMachine to create these updated and very unique Tripods. Each Tripod has four or more Multicolored LEDs that allow near infinite color combinations. ...

11/06/2010

http://www.lostmachine.com/blog/archives/210

Just as I was about to go to Bed Sunday Night the first email came in, then another one. People were buying Tripods, people were helping build the ship. I looked at the View counter on the Video and it had shot up 200 more views than an hour before.

08/06/2010

I just listed the last 20 Tripods on the Site. Over 30 have sold today because of the Boing Boing post. I expect the rest to go tomorrow. These will most likely be the last Tripods before Burning Man. If you want one now is the time.

http://www.lostmachine.com/tripod.html

Incorporating an advanced electronics package, Jopel Designs has partnered up with LostMachine to create these updated and very unique Tripods. Each Tripod has four or more Multicolored LEDs that allow near infinite color combinations. ...

07/06/2010

The Pirate Ship and the Video are on Boing Boing this morning.http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/07/steampunk-pirate-shi.html
Boing Boing is one of the biggest Blogs on the Internet. This is the support we needed for the Ship and Tripods are selling fast because of it. If you were thinking of buying a Tripod now is the Time. These will be the last Tripods until after Burning Man.

Andy sez, "For the past few years I have been building a steampunk pirate ship. We plan to have the ship done by Burning Man 2010. So far all the fundraising has been through donations and the sales of small LED sculptures called 'Tripod Sentinels'. ...